Apple TV’s Strange Planet is praised for translating Nathan W. Pyle’s webcomic into a visually faithful adult animated sci-fi comedy, with literal alien descriptions making ordinary human habits seem absurd. Its colourful, anonymous characters also allow it to explore universal subjects such as relationships, parenthood and uncertainty about life, but the article argues that its central joke struggles to sustain a full television series.

The show expands short comic-strip observations into ten episodes of roughly half an hour, using connected vignettes, recurring characters and more elaborate storylines. However, the article says the concise humour that works in a four-panel comic can become repetitive when stretched across longer narratives, despite involvement from Dan Harmon and a prominent voice cast.